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DPRK not to consider dialogue with S Korea
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-09 21:14

PYONGYANG - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) could not consider having a dialogue with South Korea considering that Seoul was making an issue of human rights in the country, a spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said Saturday.

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The fact of South Korea enticed some defectors to hold a so-called "North Korea Freedom Week" in Washington showed that the South attempted to make the DPRK's human rights international, the spokesman was quoted by the official KCNA news agency as saying in a statement.

"This behavior was totally negation and provocation against the regime and dignity of the DPRK," the spokesman said.

The spokesman said South Korea was not qualified to discuss the problems considering that it had itself human rights problems.

The spokesman said the army and people of the DPRK were inflamed by the South's act of defaming or slandering the public. "The DPRK could not consider having a dialogue with South Korea at all," he said.